Posted January 28, 200817 yr On 8th February the Grammy Awards Charity Auction, hosted by Julien's Auctions, will offer various items of music memorabilia including Elvis's Gretsch guitar used by him during the 1969 Las Vegas Season. The estimate is $100,000 and will be, as the star lot, auctioned last as Lot #80. B) http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/80.jpg http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/20...rds/index.html#
February 13, 200817 yr Author Elvis items raise money at Grammy Awards Charity Auction: :cheer: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/auction_grammy50.jpg Four Elvis items were up for auction during the Grammy Awards Charity Auction benefitting the MusiCares foundation: A gold record for "Elvis In Concert" raised $375.00 An Elvis owned and worn shirt raised $9,000.00 A photograph of Elvis with his parents raised $656.25 And finally an Elvis owned and played Gretsch guitar raised $180,000.00 and was the biggest selling item during the auction which raised $540,250.00 in total :dance:
February 13, 200817 yr Author And on the subject of the Grammys B) Elvis, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Dave Brubeck and the Grammy's: Does the name Elvis Presley ring a bell? With 1 billion records sold and more than 100 Top 40 hits to his credit, he went down in history as the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Yet the three Grammy Awards he won over the course of his career were only for gospel recordings :wub: "It's the absolute jaw-dropper shockeroo of all time," says Tom O'Neil, author of "The Grammys" and columnist for theenvelope.latimes.com, an awards-show Web site. "The ultimate hedonist's only Grammys were in religious categories!" O'Neil says. "It's a scream!" Rapper Kanye West leads this year's contenders, with eight nominations. Embattled neo-soulstress Amy Winehouse has six nods, including one in each of the four top races -- record, album and song of the year, and best new artist. The hard-rocking Foo Fighters, pop singer Justin Timberlake and hip-hoppers Jay-Z, Timbaland and T-Pain each have five nominations. We'll see if any more howlers ensue Sunday night during the 50th annual Grammy Awards ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Bestowed by the Recording Academy, the golden gramophone trophies are regarded as the music industry's top honor. Over the past half-century, however, the Grammys haven't always gotten it right. Bob Dylan, for example, didn't win a single one for any of his seminal 1960s recordings. Chances are he wouldn't get any sympathy from the likes of the Beach Boys, Sam Cooke, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin or Led Zeppelin, to name but a few of the major talents who mind-bogglingly never won a Grammy. How did luminaries of this magnitude slip through the cracks? "Because they were young and dangerous when the voters were old guys," O'Neil says. "Remember who votes on this. It's the music-industry establishment. They're always fighting off challenges to the established sound." Academy makes 'progress': The Recording Academy (formerly known as the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) was founded in 1957. It has 12,000 voting members -- including musicians, producers and recording engineers -- who cast Grammy ballots. For years, some people dismissed the awards as "the Grannys" because they seemed hopelessly out of touch with the latest musical trends. "We've made tremendous progress," says Neil Portnow, a former Jive Records executive who became president of the Recording Academy in 2002. "There may have been a time when as an organization, we were in development mode and in a transitional phase," Portnow says. "When the first Grammy Awards were given, it was an interesting time culturally, when you still had a great dominance of music from a previous generation. "Now, mainly because of our voting population and a more highly sophisticated vetting process, we generally do get it right." All the same, there's still room for improvement. Hip-hop, the dominant form of popular music for decades, consistently comes up short for the top awards. Ditto country music -- at least until last year, when the Dixie Chicks and Carrie Underwood won big. The Grammys cover 110 categories, ranging from best rap/sung collaboration to best jazz instrumental solo. And don't forget best spoken word album, in which this year's nominees include Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. For all their shortcomings, the awards can pay big dividends for winners. After the Dixie Chicks won five Grammys last year, their "Taking the Long Way" album sold nearly 108,000 copies, a 700 percent increase over the previous week. Singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin, a three-time Grammy winner, won record and song of the year for "Sunny Came Home" in 1998. "I felt very proud and lucky," Colvin says. "It certainly gave my career a little boost." Beachwood-based record company Telarc and its subsidiaries have won 54 Grammys for classical, jazz and world-music recordings. Awards in those fields are handed out during the pre-telecast ceremony. Elaine Martone, Telarc's executive vice president of production and senior recording producer, has three Grammys to her name. She was awarded the classical producer of the year prize in 2007. "It was great," she says. "I got up and did a little dance in the aisle." Artists welcome coveted statue: Winning a Grammy brings a certain amount of cachet, which can be good for business, Martone says. The Grammys "get it right to the extent that things get recognized that deserve to get recognized," she says. "But there are some glaring exceptions." Take Dave Brubeck, the Grammy-less jazz legend of "Take Five" fame. Still going strong at 87 years old, he released a solo album, "Indian Summer," last year on Telarc. As the Grammys pass the half-century mark, the question remains: Do these gleaming gramophones reflect the best music out there, year in and year out? "We certainly think so," Portnow says. "I suppose the question is: 'According to whom?' There are different ways to evaluate that question. "One could look at popularity. One could look at record sales. One could look at chart positions. That's not what we do. "Our voting members are peers of the nominees. . . . In their estimation, these nominations are in fact the best music of the past year." The Grammys "tell us who's in and who's out of the club," O'Neil says. "It's absurd to believe this is the best music of the year. But on the other hand, they make a valid point. "We don't expect the edgiest movies to win the Oscars or the grittiest TV shows to win the Emmys. But God help the Grammys if the coolest rap music doesn't win. That's an unfair standard." The Grammys "can't speak for everybody," says Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas. He took home three Grammys in 2000 for his contributions to "Smooth," Santana's monster hit. "Music is subjective," Thomas says. "One artist is somebody's favorite and somebody else's least favorite. "It's great to be nominated. It's great to win. Everybody should appreciate it. But after the Grammys, put it on your shelf and leave it there."c (News, Source: www.cleveland.com/EP Gold) (News, Source: Elvis News) Elvis and the Grammy Awards B) Elvis received 14 Grammy nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). His three wins were for gospel recordings - the album How Great Thou Art (1967), the album He Touched Me (1972) and his live Memphis concert recording of the song How Great Thou Art (1974). In 1971, NARAS also recognized him with their Lifetime Achievement Award (known then as the Bing Crosby Award in honor of its first recipient). Elvis was 36 years old at the time. Six of Elvis' recordings, all of them his original studio masters, have been inducted into the NARAS Hall of Fame: Hound Dog (1956 recording, inducted 1988), Heartbreak Hotel (1956 recording, inducted 1995), That's All Right (1954 recording, inducted 1998), Suspicious Minds (1969 recording, inducted 1999), Don't Be Cruel (1956 recording, inducted 2002) and Are You Lonesome Tonight (1960 recording, inducted 2007). The Recording Academy's national trustees established the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 1973 to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance that are at least 25 years old. Many inductees are recordings that were created and released before the 1958 inception of NARAS and the Grammy Awards.
February 13, 200817 yr Elvis items raise money at Grammy Awards Charity Auction: :cheer: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y48/elvis1959/auction_grammy50.jpg Four Elvis items were up for auction during the Grammy Awards Charity Auction benefitting the MusiCares foundation: A gold record for "Elvis In Concert" raised $375.00 An Elvis owned and worn shirt raised $9,000.00 A photograph of Elvis with his parents raised $656.25 And finally an Elvis owned and played Gretsch guitar raised $180,000.00 and was the biggest selling item during the auction which raised $540,250.00 in total :dance: Wow, how amazing is that. I would have liked the shirt Elvis had worn, i could have worn it in bed when i drifted off to sleep. :naughty: :P ;)
February 13, 200817 yr Author Wow, how amazing is that. I would have liked the shirt Elvis had worn, i could have worn it in bed when i drifted off to sleep. :naughty: :P ;) You'd certainly have sweet dreams wearing that :wub: :dance:
February 13, 200817 yr Author More than sweetdreams i can tell ya :o :P ;) You don't need to tell me, I can read your mind cos if I was wearing that shirt, mine would be anything but sweet :naughty: :yahoo:
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